Amanda Penrose Quotes in The Opposite Sex (1956)

Amanda Penrose: [to Kay] What do you think marriage is anyway? Something safe and comfortable you can take for granted? This is a rough world, Kay, and marriage has to live in it. It has to be won over and over again, as many times as necessary and against all challenges. And anyone who hasn't the guts to fight ought to have learned to live alone and like it a long time ago.

Amanda Penrose: Women. Ladies. The female of the species. Sometimes livelier than the male. Always deadlier.

Sylvia Fowler: You really ought to stop all this writing nonsense and get yourself a husband. One thing about marriage is its so good for a woman's complexion.

Amanda Penrose: A jar of face cream doesn't snore.

Sylvia Fowler: Aw, don't be busy darling. Anyway, that suit is divine! Cuts your waist right in half.

[Amanda walks away. To Olga]

Sylvia Fowler: And puts ten pounds on her hips.

Dolly DeHaven: What are you four conspiring about?

Kay Hilliard, Sylvia Fowler, Amanda Penrose, Edith Potter: Hello, Dolly!

Dolly DeHaven: Anything unfit to print?

Kay Hilliard: Not today.

Amanda Penrose: You just can't stand Kay's happiness, can you, Sylvia? It gets you down.

Sylvia Fowler: That's ridiculous. Why should it?

Amanda Penrose: Because she has the grace to be what she is.

Sylvia Fowler: Which is what?

Amanda Penrose: A woman.

Sylvia Fowler: And what are we?

Amanda Penrose: Females. The lost sex. Substituting fashion for passion and the analyst couch for the double bed.

Amanda Penrose: Considering the occasion, Sylvia, you could have thought of something more appropriate than ham.

Sylvia Fowler: Oh, I have a tongue sandwich, darling, just for you.

Sylvia Fowler: That trip to Bermuda seems to have done Kay a lot of good.

Amanda Penrose: Yes, there's nothing like getting away from your friends.